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Richard Wagner - Lohengrin

Richard Wagner - Lohengrin

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

May 22, 2016

Runtime

3h 35m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Richard Wagner - Lohengrin

Production Companies

Unitel, Semperoper Dresden, ZDF, ARTE, Deutsche Grammophon

Director

Tiziano Mancini

Description

A dream came true at Dresden's Semperoper in May 2016 when opera superstars Piotr Beczala and Anna Netrebko made their Wagner debuts as Lohengrin and Elsa, inspired to take on their new roles by Christian Thielmann, the Dresden Staatskapelle's principal conductor and one of the leading Wagner conductors of our day. Die Welt described the performance captured here as "musically one of the finest Lohengrins of all time". Contributing to the triumph are Evelyn Herlitzius's Ortrud. Tomasz Konieczny's Telramund, Georg Zeppenfeld's King Henry and the Dresden State Opera Chorus.